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Contraction and Convergence Policy Recommendations for
Global Sustainable Supply of Strategic Natural Resources
Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir1 and Harald U. Sverdrup2
1University of Iceland, 2University of Lund
STHESCA, Krakow, Poland, July 5-7, 2011
Science, Technology, Higher Education and Society in a Conceptual World
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Contraction and convergence
• North – contract their resource consumption
• South – increase their resource consumption
• Meet at the same equitable consumption rate…
• CONVERGEproject – FP7
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Planetary boundariesWe have surpassed 3 of 9
Acidification of oceans
Ozone in stratosphere
Rockström et al. 2009
Cycling ofnitrogen
Cycling of phosphorous
Freshwater useLand use change
Biodiversity loss
Atmospheric aerosolloading
Chemical pollution
Climate change
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Resource depletion
• Man is a geologic force!!!– We move annually 10x more than nature
– We now are in a biological extinction phase • 25% of mammals endangered
– Thousands of species become extinct every year
– Ecosystems on land and in oceans endangered
– In 30 years• We have used up 1/3 of the Earth´s resources!
– Destroyed 30% of forests, lost 25% of soil, 50% of oil, 50% of P…
– Metals and other commodities are becoming scarce
= Because of consumption
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Polulation GDP Dams on rivers
Wateruse
Urbanpopulation
Paperconsumption
Bíla-samgöngur
Number of telephones
Tourism
McDonalds
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Exponential growth forever?
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Growth
“The greatest imperfection of mankind is that it does not understand the consequence of exponential growth”
Albert Allen Bartlett
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on for ever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist”
Kenneth Boulding
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Seven steps toward sustainability
• Think long term
• Understand systems
• Know limits
• Protect nature
• Change commerce
• Show equity
• Support entrepreneurship
(AtKisson 2008)
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• N = Nature Environment, resources, ecosystems, climate, resource use, land-use
• E = EconomyProduction, consumption, employment, investment, infrastructure, labor, risk
• S = SocietyGovernment, culture, institutions, collective concerns, education system
• W = WellbeingIndividual health, families, education, quality of life, personal development, relationships
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Sustainability Compass: AtKisson 2008
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3 different methods used
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Phosphorus burn-off rates
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Business as usual, population trajectory, but with phosphorus limitation
Peak population
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The race on resources is on.This applies to many more strategic materials, phosphorus is only one ofthem.
Procrastination and denial is futile against mass balanceand only lead to humiliation.
Exponential growth forever is a thermodynamicimpossibility.
Adaptation of society is required.
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Policy Recommendations
• Strict enforcement of all activities within sustainability boundaries.
• Define critical extraction rates. Enforce them.
• Make recycling of all natural resources compulsory – aim for over 90% within 5 years
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Policy recommendations
• Place a large and substantial payable deposit on every ton of resource removed from the ground, returning the deposit to the entity carrying out the recycling.
• Arrange for production quotas from a long term basis for fossil materials that already are scarce. Stop in time when EROI goes negative.
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Policy recommendation
• Vision a “happy” sustainable future.
• Promote the values of equity and ethical behaviour.
• Promote the culture of “enough.”
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For a Sustainability Revolution
• In addition to population
reduction, more efficient use of resources, pollution control, technological advancement etc…
• We need visioning,
networking, truth telling, learning … and loving
Meadows et al. (2004)
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Thank you!
Thanks to coworker
Harald Sverdrup
University of Lund, Sweden